Episode 27 - Heartbreakers, Part 2

We're back, having survived another month of the heartbreak that is 2020, to talk about more of the games that also broke our hearts. The audio continues to be noisy, for which we continue to apologize, but we have a cunning plan in place to improve things for next month. Thank you for your patience, and stay tuned!

Some elements of interest from this month:

• Read the marvelous short story that inspired a heartbreaking board game.
• Some more terrible box cover art which a reprint managed to make even worse.
• In case you didn't understand Brian's reference to The Cones of Dunshire...watch the video.
• Two examples of the beautiful but clunky games of Jean du Poël...
• …plus Frank's remix of the rules to Mare Mediterraneum.

What are the games that broke your heart? And why are we all (but especially Frank) wrong about the ones on our list? Please let us know. And please fill out the Future Episodes poll on our homepage if you haven't already!

As always, we appreciate your listening and would love to hear your comments on any or all of these items, and especially a review on iTunes if you have the time and inclination!

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